Young driver’s terror

Attempted carjacking

HE STARTED TRYING ALL THE DOORS, AND THEN WENT AROUND TO MY SIDE ON THE PASSENGER SEAT AND STARTED THE SAME THING

A TEENAGER has been left shaken up after a man involved in the attempted car jacking of a delivery driver tried to get into their car just minutes earlier.

About 9.30pm on Tuesday, an Uber Eats driver was injured when he was ambushed by two men who tried to steal his car keys at Aitkenvale.

They struggled, injuring the driver, but the men gave up and fled without the keys.

Just minutes earlier, Townsville mum Kristy Gillespie and her 19-year-old son were the first targets, telling the Townsville Bulletin how two men came up to their car and tried to get inside.

“We were just sitting there waiting for my daughter to finish work and my son saw a guy come up,” Ms Gillespie said.

“He locked the car before he even got close, but then he started banging on the driver’s side door and then tried to open it.

“And then he did gestures to us to open the window, like he wanted to talk.”

Ms Gillespie said their instincts kicked in and they ignored the man, but he wouldn’t stop.

“He started trying all the doors, and then went around to my side on the passenger seat and started the same

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thing.

“When that didn’t work he then went to the car park and tried different cars.”

Ms Gillespie called police, and warned her 14-year-old daughter’s workplace to lock up while the men kept loitering.

About 20 m i n u t e s went by when they saw the same men sprinting from an area of the carpark towards Nathan St.

The men had just tried to steal the delivery driver’s car.

The driver was assaulted and one of the men got into his car and reversed into into an outdoor seating area, leaving him with some minor injuries.

“I called triple-0 again as police hadn’t arrived yet.

“We were pretty shaken up. We couldn’t drive away or anything because we had a 14year-old locked in her work.

“It’s definitely traumatised my daughter.”

Police are still investigating the incident and no one has been arrested yet.